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MINING WITH THE MAJOR

sA – A viCTiM OF POlAr wAndEr.
WhiCh WaY is right?
Geophysicists at Rice University in Texas
have uncovered evidence that suggests investors and managers know exactly who is going
Earth’s spin axis was in a di erent spot to get what, right from the onset, from said investor
many years ago – a phenomenon called – well before the project even starts and any money
begins to flow.

the “true polar wander”. The change, Up north, the mining legislation is o en cast in
© Robert Tshabalala @ Financial Mail
which would have shi ed Greenland further up stone for decades (if not centuries – America’s is
The views expressed are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect SA Mining’s editorial policy.
into the Arctic Circle, would also have shi ed unchanged in 147 years), while south of the equator,

South Africa’s coordinates. Has this phenomenon in South Africa, we are constantly changing our

contributed to the onset of the fairly recent major Mining Charter (four times in 14 years).

Ice Age in investments in SA? And not 3.2 million In fact, an investor cannot even acquire a mining

years ago like the last major Ice Age all of Earth went company or licence here without the minister

through either, but by fewer than 32 years ago when personally “approving” the transaction which could

the major investment freeze in SA began. involve conditions and a waiting period of anywhere

When you subtract out the movement of the peter major between four and 12 months. While in the Northern
Pacific Plate, the path of these equator records Hemisphere prospecting rights can be granted in as
shows something unexpected: the equator wasn’t mergence Corporate little as a day.

where it is now from 48 million years ago to about 12 solutions director: mining Receiving a mining licence in South Africa

million years ago. It moved. Just as “rationality and involves jumping through numerous hoops. And

investment attractiveness” and “gold and base metal mining” in South the stipulations encountered when converting to mining rights are

Africa have also “moved”. (Disappeared, to be blunt.) o en overwhelming with BEE and triple BEE only the beginning;

Investors travelling to South Africa today can readily confirm how extending to aspects such as employee and community trusts; multiple

“opposite” so much here now appears to be, compared to the Northern scorecards and requirements from hiring to ownership to dividends and

Hemisphere where most investors are from. purchasing. South Africa seems to see and treat investors as “debtors

For instance, north of the equator, countries vigorously fight for and IOUs” – as entitlements – rather than rescuers opening the doors to

international investment. And not just countries, but even states inside economic growth.

countries and even municipalities inside states. They all compete It took tax and capital incentives and other inducements for South

doggedly for foreign investment. Usually this competing is transparent Africans to entice overseas investors many decades ago to invest in the

and structured. For instance, states and municipalities in America and development of our deep, costly and complex gold mines. Yet South

Europe send governors and/or Africa’s New Era “south of the

o icial delegations abroad (such equator” thinking today o ers

as to Korea and Japan) to lobby instead policy and legislation

for factories and plants to be built demands, royalties and penalties,

in their particular state or city. which e ectively prevented the

They even o er enticements development of any new gold

ranging from the transparent and mines and delivered the death

legitimate to the behind-closed- knell to existing ones; fast-tracking

doors type on occasion. their demise long before they’d

The competition and extracted the tens of millions of

inducements usually centre ounces remaining in the mines.

around incentives such as Just to illustrate to the world

exemption from taxes for the first how so much of everything north

five, 10 or even 20 years. Free of the equator is now “polar

land and sometimes free land opposite” here in the south,

and utilities. And sometimes no South Africa’s mining minister,

taxes, free land and utilities and speaking at the Australian Africa

even schools for the investor’s Down Under Mining Conference

immigrant employees. in August 2013, told the audience

Yet south of the equator, here that “the international investment

in South Africa, so much seems community must moderate their

to be the polar opposite. In South investment expectations if they

Africa, rather than us travelling wish to partner in South Africa”.

overseas to attract and entice This is certainly not a great

investors, we wait for them to way to make people with money,

come here. And when they do between reversals during reversals which South Africa so urgently
come, we torment them and needs, think that we are living on

barrage them with hundreds (and the same planet with the same

sometimes thousands) of rules and requirements demanding investors laws and rules of physics and economics as applied to investment, return

o er contracts, jobs, schools, payments, training and community and risk.

development among others – even before they have decided to invest Will South Africa’s recent 32-year repulsion to foreign investment and

in a project. South African government ministers, national union common sense reverse back to normality? Hopefully – before the Earth’s

representatives and local municipalities all make sure that future poles themselves reverse again. ■

50 SA MINING NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2019

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thyssenkrupp spearheads
training centre excellence

Diversified industrial group thyssenkrupp recently appointed Steve inclusion of this new mechatronics trade in its accreditation, which
Parkinson as head of the Technical Training Academy. Parkinson is expected to be obtained before the end of 2019. The academy
is committed to creating a centre of training excellence that can develops and maintains MERSETA/Quality Council for Trades and
be replicated at every thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions office in Occupations-approved apprentice training programmes. “We
Africa. “I am eager to use my new position to make a difference received accreditation from the QCTO for both the metal machinist
on the continent through the Training Academy,” said Parkinson, and mechanical fitter trades in July 2019, ” said Parkinson.
who brings to the table notable qualifications in manufacturing
and operations as well as vast industry experience. His job
portfolio includes training delivery and development, compliance
and sales. The technical skills-centric academy boasts in-house
developed technical training and development programmes.
“We are extremely proud of the third-year apprentices from the
training facility who, without exception, achieved a 100% pass
rate on the first attempt of their trade tests,” said Parkinson.
To ensure its students of best-practice training, the academy
adopts a proactive approach and also included a collaboration
between thyssenkrupp and the German Chamber of Commerce
in the development of a mechatronics trade qualification. This is
the first artisan qualification in South Africa whereby qualifying
learners not only obtain a South African qualification but also a
German qualification, the company said. Currently two students
are undergoing the mechatronic pilot project which is set to
expand to eight students in 2020. The academy has applied for the

De Beers anD Un Women
complete training more than 700 women

On the second anniversary of becoming a HeForShe Thematic support networks. Commenting on the programme’s success so
Champion and partnering with UN Women, De Beers Group far, Bruce Cleaver, CEO, De Beers Group, said: “It is proven that
recently announced that more than 700 woman micro- supporting women and girls to advance their skills and grow their
entrepreneurs in Namibia and South Africa had successfully influence in the commercial sector maximises the opportunities
completed their training. The Accelerating Women Owned Micro- for societal development, as women reinvest more of their income
Enterprises (AWOME) programme was also recently launched back into their communities.”
in Botswana, creating even more opportunities for woman
micro-entrepreneurs to participate. Part of De Beers Group’s
partnership with UN Women, the AWOME programme is tailored
to provide woman micro-entrepreneurs with the skills required to
grow their businesses. Using a “train the trainer” approach, local
community members were selected and trained in mentoring,
networks, business and life skills. These community members
then in turn train woman entrepreneurs, enabling the programme
to be sustainably embedded in the long term, says De Beers.
Targeting regions with high levels of unemployment where job
opportunities are limited, the aim of the AWOME programme is to
create a sustainable support network by building the capacity of
locally based trainers to understand the specific challenges faced
by female micro-entrepreneurs in these regions and build peer

52 SA Mining nOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2019

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Jet Demolition
helps mines cap
illegal mining
activities

© ISTOCK – tfoxfotoBME goEs gloBal Redundant mine shafts are becoming a growing risk for large
with hoME-grown mining houses due to a sharp spike in illegal mining activities.
The fact that the Witwatersrand Basin has been cited as
tEch contributing over 50% of all gold ever produced on Earth is
an indication not only of the extent of the country’s mining
Explosives manufacturer BME has become a homegrown South network, but how endemic the problem of illegal mining is to
African success story now exporting blasting technology to South Africa, says Jet Demolition.
mining countries worldwide, the company said.
“The fact is that illegal mining is born from desperation.
“The crucial thread running through this success has been People are willing to risk their lives by going underground
our innovative approach and willingness to experiment,” says to try to recover pockets of unmined material, as well as
Joe Keenan, managing director of BME. “Our acquisition in 1987 copper cable and steel shaft infrastructure. They can be
by the JSE-listed Omnia Group also allowed further expansion armed, which poses a huge risk. it is not uncommon to
of our explosives product range and capacity.” witness extreme violence or intimidation in these areas,”
Jet Demolition contracts manager André Botes says. The
While the business was built on reliability, service and stable most effective means of ensuring that redundant shafts are
emulsion technologies, Keenan says it soon branched out into protected from occupation by illegal miners is to seal them
other blasting-related innovations. These advanced products permanently below natural ground level, typically after
and equipment were developed for application in the African filling the shaft barrel. Jet Demolition offers a full range of
environment, but are now steadily embraced in many markets demolition services, including advanced mechanical solutions
abroad. and controlled implosions. its turnkey service offering for the
mining industry includes backfilling shaft barrels, designing
“Beyond emulsions, we have developed our own range permanent caps, installing caps at a defined depth below
of emulsion trucks, and diversified from opencast mining natural ground level, and recording the final position and
into underground operations,” he says. “We also engineered depth of caps, followed by the backfill and reinstatement of
electronic detonation technologies and blast planning the natural material over cap tops.
software.”
“We have also sealed a few shafts that had to be equipped
An early breakthrough in used oil as an emulsion ingredient with monitoring access points as part of the acid mine
had both financial and environmental benefits. With an initial drainage (AMD) project in the Western, Central and Eastern
contract on the country’s largest iron ore mine, BME developed Basins of the Witwatersrand goldfields. These access points
a way to incorporate used engine oil in its emulsion mix. will be used to monitor the quality and volume of subsurface
water in the foreseeable future,” Botes reveals.
“In addition to creating a cost saving that could be passed
on to the customer,” he says, “this application of used oil
reduced the risk of environmental contamination through
spillage – as it disposed of the oil through the blasting process.”

Initially the oil came from the customer’s earthmoving and
mining machines. Today BME is a key player in recycling South
Africa’s used oil. It has developed its own used oil collection
network and processing facilities, and consumes around 20%
of the country’s available used oil in the manufacture of its
standard bulk emulsion.

54 SA Mining nOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2019

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